scholarly journals The Formation of the First Stars. II. Radiative Feedback Processes and Implications for the Initial Mass Function

2008 ◽  
Vol 681 (2) ◽  
pp. 771-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher F. McKee ◽  
Jonathan C. Tan
Keyword(s):  
Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
First Stars ◽  
Radiative Feedback

scholarly journals The importance of magnetic fields for the initial mass function of the first stars

2020 ◽  
Vol 497 (1) ◽  
pp. 336-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piyush Sharda ◽  
Christoph Federrath ◽  
Mark R Krumholz
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
Dynamo Theory ◽  
First Stars ◽  
High Redshift Galaxies

ABSTRACT Magnetic fields play an important role for the formation of stars in both local and high-redshift galaxies. Recent studies of dynamo amplification in the first dark matter haloes suggest that significant magnetic fields were likely present during the formation of the first stars in the Universe at redshifts of 15 and above. In this work, we study how these magnetic fields potentially impact the initial mass function (IMF) of the first stars. We perform 200 high-resolution, three-dimensional (3D), magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the collapse of primordial clouds with different initial turbulent magnetic field strengths as predicted from turbulent dynamo theory in the early Universe, forming more than 1100 first stars in total. We detect a strong statistical signature of suppressed fragmentation in the presence of strong magnetic fields, leading to a dramatic reduction in the number of first stars with masses low enough that they might be expected to survive to the present-day. Additionally, strong fields shift the transition point where stars go from being mostly single to mostly multiple to higher masses. However, irrespective of the field strength, individual simulations are highly chaotic, show different levels of fragmentation and clustering, and the outcome depends on the exact realization of the turbulence in the primordial clouds. While these are still idealized simulations that do not start from cosmological initial conditions, our work shows that magnetic fields play a key role for the primordial IMF, potentially even more so than for the present-day IMF.

scholarly journals Constraints on the initial mass function of the first stars

2006 ◽  
Vol 369 (2) ◽  
pp. 825-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaella Schneider ◽  
Ruben Salvaterra ◽  
Andrea Ferrara ◽  
Benedetta Ciardi
Keyword(s):  
Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
First Stars

scholarly journals Generic Spectrum and Ionization Efficiency of a Heavy Initial Mass Function for the First Stars

2001 ◽  
Vol 552 (2) ◽  
pp. 464-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Bromm ◽  
Rolf P. Kudritzki ◽  
Abraham Loeb
Keyword(s):  
Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass Function ◽  
Ionization Efficiency ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
First Stars

scholarly journals The Initial Mass Function of the First Stars Inferred from Extremely Metal-poor Stars

2018 ◽  
Vol 857 (1) ◽  
pp. 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miho N. Ishigaki ◽  
Nozomu Tominaga ◽  
Chiaki Kobayashi ◽  
Ken’ichi Nomoto
Keyword(s):  
Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
First Stars

Low‐Mass Star Formation and the Initial Mass Function in IC 348

1998 ◽  
Vol 508 (1) ◽  
pp. 347-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. L. Luhman ◽  
G. H. Rieke ◽  
C. J. Lada ◽  
E. A. Lada
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
Mass Star ◽  
Low Mass

scholarly journals CHARACTERIZING THE BROWN DWARF FORMATION CHANNELS FROM THE INITIAL MASS FUNCTION AND BINARY-STAR DYNAMICS

2015 ◽  
Vol 800 (1) ◽  
pp. 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo Thies ◽  
Jan Pflamm-Altenburg ◽  
Pavel Kroupa ◽  
Michael Marks
Keyword(s):  
Binary Star ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
Brown Dwarf

scholarly journals Radial gradients in initial mass function sensitive absorption features in the Coma brightest cluster galaxies

2016 ◽  
Vol 465 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Zieleniewski ◽  
Ryan C. W. Houghton ◽  
Niranjan Thatte ◽  
Roger L. Davies ◽  
Sam P. Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
Cluster Galaxies ◽  
Brightest Cluster Galaxies ◽  
Absorption Features

scholarly journals Is the stellar initial mass function universal?

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 2.32-2.36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignacio Ferreras ◽  
Francesco La Barbera ◽  
Alexandre Vazdekis
Keyword(s):  
Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
Stellar Initial Mass Function
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